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'Gotcha' Comes Home

A hallmark of industries in distress about their future is a sudden concern with appearances and that has lately been true of the print media as they face the challenges of the electronic age.

In the case of Boston Globe's conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby, suspended for four months to the great consternation of fellow conservatives, his official sin was creating an appearance of plagiarism. His real sin his employers couldn't bring themselves to name: Let's just say the day our readers get the feeling we're taking...